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lent waters warned us that the bridge was weakening. We started 

 from our peninsular camp on Evolution at half-past one and arrived 

 at Little Pete Meadows by dark, a distance of about thirteen miles. 

 Members of the 1920 club outing have questioned the possibility 

 of this. The answer is that with us weather conditions were ideal. 



After visiting Grouse Meadows and Palisade Creek, our return 

 trip took us up the Dusy branch of the Kings and over Bishop 

 Pass. We had been warned of the deficiencies of the Dusy trail — 

 the one trail in the Sierra that has no short-cut. The first sheepmen 

 or cattlemen in these parts must have been imbued with the one 

 idea of getting from Dusy Basin to the grassy floor of the Kings 

 in the shortest possible time, little reckoning that the return must 

 some day be made. All travelers to this date have stubbornly re- 

 fused to vary the grade. The first quarter-mile up Dusy from the 

 Kings is like most steep trails. Then for a half-mile animals scramble 

 up rock gullies, leaping kangaroo-like over nearly perpendicular 

 rock masses standing in places two or three feet high athwart the 

 trail. Then, as a bit of tantalizing reminder that all trails are not 

 bad in the Sierra, one debouches upon a level canon-floor suspended 

 midway between Dusy Basin and the Kings. This is short-lived 

 and the same old punishment begins for just a little longer and a 

 little steeper half-mile. No traveler is reckless enough to ride either 

 way. Mules capable of carrying 225 pounds pack only a hundred 

 pounds going up and considerable less than capacity going down. 

 It is not uncommon to report a pack-animal's broken leg before the 

 end of the trail. 



We were thrilled with the unsolicited statements of two different 

 packers that they hoped the Sierra Club would go over Bishop Pass 

 and Dusy trail on its next Annual Outing. "It takes the Sierra 

 Club to get trail work done in these mountains," was the candid 

 comment. No one knows better than the officers of the Sierra Club 

 the meager trail funds allotted to our national forest supervisors. 

 The writer has by circular letter brought the condition of this trail 

 to the attention of the supervisor of the Sierra National Forest, the 

 trails committee of the Sierra Club, the Bishop Chamber of Com- 

 merce, and Bishop newspapers. While Dusy Creek is within the 

 Sierra Forest and Fresno County and Bishop is in Inyo County, 

 with its own Inyo National Forest problems, the merchants of 

 Bishop are beginning to realize that Bishop Pass is no longer a 



